Random Whines...

It's been awhile, hasn't it?

Ahh yes, but have no fear!! Your fearless whiner is here with a whole new list of random and scathing whines! Let the whining begin...

Well...let's see...I made the decision that two jobs wasn't enough torture and have decided to add yet another to my already pretty busy schedule. I recently started as a front desk supervisor for the Rockwell Recreation Center. It basically amounts to me swiping membership cards and folding lots and lots of towels. And as I have already discovered, I will never be able to be totally anonymous again. Evidentally, there are a number of you HPL patrons out there who also happen to work out there. So, if that's you, you'll be seeing me there...I'll be the one eating peanut butter bon-bons and drinking a big mug of coffee behind the front desk. That's right, I am the total antithesis of what this place sets out to be. Heh. Who knows? Maybe it will bring about a whole new change in me...riiiight.

I've been in the process for the last week or so, of weeding the VHS collection again. I swear...that thing is one giant, growing, living organism...that breeds. No matter how many of those things I get rid of, there's ten more that reappear in its place!! Oy! But this time I've done a very heavy weeding of that area. By heavy, I mean that I've managed to reduce the collection to just one set of shelving. I know that some people find it difficult to imagine us getting rid of materials in our collection, but we have to. Not only for aesthetic purposes, but also to make room! Those shelves get a little snug sometimes! Anyways, to make the point short and sweet: I chucked a bunch of VHS videos out of the collection and they are now for sale in the Friends booksale room for $1 a piece.

Finally, I have decided that I will totally unfit to be a mother someday. Hear me out on this one. I have been dog-sitting for my boy for about the last week and a half while he has been taking care of a sick loved one in his family. At first, my initial thinking was "Meh, no problem...I can totally handle this!" My thinking now? "What in the h*** was I thinking!?" I can't tell you how many times in the last week I have almost forgotten to feed her. (For the record, she has been fed the entire time, no need to call animal control yet...) If hasn't been forgetting to feed her, then it's been trying not to beat her into oblivion for waking me up at 5 am barking at god knows what outside the window. I am not a morning person, and there is nothing that can piss me off quicker than getting woken up even before my stinkin alarm clock goes off in the morning. But then to make the matter worse, there is nothing out there!!!! Nothing!!!

*sigh*

I really do love the dog.

I do.

Really.

Just not when she wakes me up at 5 am. So, if I'm whinier or crankier than usual this week, it's because I'm sleep-deprived and covered in itchy German Shepherd hair.

That's about it for now...hopefully I'll be back a little sooner next time...until then...peace out!

Marriage proposals and such...

I am writing today to share an experience that happened to me yesterday.

I was proposed to.

A marriage proposal.

At a stoplight.

No lie.

I was sitting at the stoplight at the intersection of Williams Blvd and Wiley when a car pulls up to my passenger's side window (which happened to be down) and I hear a "Hey."

I turn and look to see a man leaning out of his driver's side window.

"Will you marry me?" he says.

My jaw drops...look of utter shock and confusion comes across my face.

"Please" he says, "marry me."

By now, I'm wondering if I'm on candid camera.

"No?" he says and begins to pout.

"I don't think so" I tell him.

He drives off.

That's a first for me...a marriage proposal at a stoplight...and here, I always thought it would be so much more romantic! Ha! However, I did tell my real sweetheart to get on the ball and propose already. I mean, I may just have to take up the next person who proposes to me at a stoplight! *smiles*

Hope ya'll have a wonderful weekend!